Listen Before You Buy

Listen to Santigold’s new album “Master Of My Make-Believe” in full, a week before it’s released.

Though a band with little material to their name, Alvin Purple have an incredibly clear sense of direction, and the obvious musical ability to take their vision to the next level

Electric guitar, trenchant bass-line , female vocals, synthesizers and a bit of reverberation. Blonds are a Treasure Coast, Florida, dream-pop duo influenced by – and I’m quoting them – old movies, old clothes and old people.

The video for the cover of the song from the movie based on a book is here!

So, David Fincher, the first trailer for your last movie The Social Network featured a cover of Radiohead‘s “Creep” by Belgian girls’ choir Scala and Kolacny Brothers. The popularity of that inspired scoring choice broke the choir in the states and led to their first North American performance at SXSW this year and a slot [...]

I think it’s safe to say that every girl has gone through an “Angry Chick” phase.  How many girls played Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” over and over after some douchebag broke your heart…anyone? Anyone?  Ani DiFranco?  Fiona Apple? Well you can retire those albums for the time being.  Le Butcherettes have it all – [...]

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For someone who’s making such good music at the moment it’s a shame that she’s not getting the deserved amount of daily recognition intake. EMA’s debut album “Past Life Martyred Saints” comes out May 10th (next week) but has had various tracks from it floating around these here internet halls for a couple of months, [...]

My Gold Mask is a duo from Chicago whose austere sound is dynamic and infectious.  Gretta Rochelle sings lead and plays drums to Jack Armondo’s stripped-down guitar chords.  His backup vocals give “Violet Eyes” an additional eerie feeling to Rochelle’s piercing vocals that could probably actually and metaphorically “drive nails into your heart.” Despite the similarities [...]

You know what makes an otherwise completely shite morning/week better? New Santigold.  NEW SANTIGOLD!  It’s kinda hard to believe that it’s been three years since her Alternative-Electronic-Indie self-titled debut dropped and took the musical world by storm.  Since then she’s toured the world, inspired mass-dance-athons, worked with various and sundry musicians and also disappeared and [...]

Back at the start of January I introduced you to a not-so-secret-but-still-not-giving-much-away EMA. Two songs at about 25 minutes total is all we really had with another couple of demos floating around these here webs, and neither of them had any videos. Today Pitchfork premiered the video for “California”, an almost non-existent Lo-Fi song that [...]

All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out [...]

EMA’s personal blog gives the impression that she’s came outta nowhere, and whilst that’s somwhat true it’s not entirely true. There’s not a whole lot of information out there about her right now apart from the fact that she used to be in a band called Gowns who split a while back and her name’s [...]

Half-ghost, half-20′s era actress, Karen O floats above a foggy graveyard with bandmates Nick Zinner and Brian Chase not far behind, with lights and eyes (yes, eyes) in the sky. Check it out here: And the making of here: